Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks and encourage bike riding, is taking on a new cause: requiring New Yorkers to separate their food scraps for composting.

Well, yes. The socialism and communism of America does not concern him. The police-state NSA eavesdropping worries him not a whit. He could care less about urban mob violence directed against whites. The horrific US debt-to-income ratio troubles him not. He does not care about the administration running guns to Mexican drug cartels. Talk about Obama stepping on the Constitution troubles him not.

So I guess Bloomberg DOES stay out of certain matters. I stand corrected.

This is already happening in England. There are towns where the local council is requiring upwards of 7 or 8 bins- and heaven help you if you sort things into the wrong container. Fines and no trash pick up til you sort it properly. Makes you wonder why Bloomberg doesn’t just emigrate....

Here's my (now closed) Family Farm's compost pile (2 employees for scale on size) of 5-6,000 tons. Food composting is a LOT different than garden/field waste & green debris composting. Doing that indoors is NUTZ! Composting requires full sun (heat) to get temps up to 150°F+ to kill bacteria, or you'll have a stinky, very unsanitary mess in the apartment's storage bins. Also, bones, meat & some other food scraps etc don't compost; they just draw rats.

He needs a legacy and in the echo chamber he lives his worshipers tell him he's always right, because they want his money. So he most likely believes he's doing the right thing and monuments will be built in his honor after he's dead.

I have no idea what the guy has accomplished in his life. Don't really care either.

as much as i cant stand the ahole - composting food waste makes excellent sense - NYC has a huge waste problem and a primary source of NYC's rat problem is food/refuse related. Ive got no issue with composting -

That said - it shouldnt be mandated by govt, implemented by union hacks and paid for on the backs of joe citizen

A cousin of mine and her husband have a cabin in the California costal mountains. At one time they considered installing a composting toilet until further research revealed such things are essentially updated outhouses that require endless servicing and urning of the waste. Bloomturd has come up with an equally pie in the sky idea.

And what is Bloomturd going to do with it once he has collected it???? I’m sorry, in the country or suburbs where it will be used it’s compost, in NYC it’s still garbage. Who will want it by the truck and barge full? It will wind up in the landfill, after giving a bunch of rats green jobs to sort through it and Bloomturd the sick satisfaction that he has gotten the ciotizens to comply with one of his edicts.

Because he is a typical leftist elite liberal who, by ideology, wants to control people’s lives because his view of his own self-importance is so warped that he thinks he knows what is best for everyone else. This guy has a little Napoleon complex and massages his narcissistic ego by finding pleasure in telling others what to do in their personal lives. But he is just one little man. I blame the people of New York who vote him into office, for enabling his boorish behavior.

Mixed recycling? In your dreams! There’s the black bin for glass and tins, the blue bin for newspapers, the blue bag for cardboard and the orange for plastics. If Bloomberg gets wind of the scheme, NYers will find themselves up to their armpits in rubbish receptacles....

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